Examples of succession

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In other words, no siblings remained when the succession took place.
The question of succession prompted families engaged in the same occupation to form an association that controlled members' marriages and inheritances.
I have examined the role of the wife and how the succession of that role was carried out.
A system passes through a succession of a finite number of states, but it must eventually reenter a state that it has previously encountered.
By contrast, a two-syllable suffix attached to the same stem is conducive to a succession of two stressed syllables.
The developmental literature points to at least 6 levels of empathy emerging in succession, each expanding and adding to the repertoire of empathic potential.
However, the succession is cut by a number of small faults so that the section is not continuous.
Sedimentation of the coal-bearing succession was controlled by both autogenic and allogenic factors.
Chapters 2 and 3 identify the succession of time-slices employed, their duration and their cor relation.
The morphological evolution and the stratigraphic succession of mor photypes show that a link exists between them.
A few limestone lenses also occur at the top of the succession.
Below, we list a time-succession of events now represented by features in this zone.
The succession is affected by a moderate tectonization.
There is also a general lack of seismic reflection horizons as a result of the uniformity of the carbonate succession.
The apparent depositional ages suggest that the tectonostratigraphic succession studied is inverted and that the tectonostratigraphy of the region requires revision.
The uppermost part of the succession is represented again by shallow marine clastics.
They are overlain by a 20 m thick succession, starting with dolosiltite, followed by fining-upward graded calcarenite, microbreccia and conglomerate.
A package of impure fine sandstone with poorly developed bedding follows in the succession.
In late 1914 the rains failed to develop, for the third year in succession.
Inside the major steps, there is a succession of specifying, solving, changing including change propagation!, and assessing operations.
Before we can call them schismatics, we must have something more than the succession.
Let me review the successions in order of occurrence.
The remaining successions were by other kin of the previous household head.
The logs are positioned with the older successions to the left and younger successions to the right for ease of comparison.
Consequently, two different geological correlation and exploration concepts have been applied to the lithostratigraphic successions of this extensive area.
Each diagram includes data from four samples, from bottom to top of the successions.
Incomplete cycles are defined by shallowing-upward successions where at least one facies association is lacking.
Although the latter vary in duration, they provide a simple visual connection to the well-known geological history of the sedimentary successions in each terrane.
The distinct tripartite division of the succession's continental stage was caused mainly by allogenic factors.
The extracaldera successions can reveal many facets of the volcanic evolution, and changing eruptive or environmental conditions during an eruption.
Within this list, on the contrary, certain successions of neumes do not seem to follow closely the typical cantillation of a pericope.
The general pardons which invariably accompanied royal successions underscored mercy as a prerogative of power.
Wide-ranging harmonic successions are based on the characteristic anticlockwise circle of fifths and with modulations of the same type as that of the preceding period.
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